Weeks 1-3 Introduction to Writing Non-Fiction Applying the Literary Elements of Rhetoric

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Required Reading:

• Annotating a Text
• Annotated Text Sample
• Langston Hughes Theme B for English
• George Bush “9/11 5th Anniversary Address”
• George Orwell “Why I Write”
• Joan Didion Why I Write look for link
• Doris Lessing Nobel Prize for Literature Speech "It is the Storyteller That Will Create Us"
• Annie Dillard "Notes for Young Writers"
• List of Words Describing Tone
• Negative, Positive, and Neutral Tone Words
• Peer and Proofreading List
• Overview of the Academic Essay

Supplemental Reading:

• Paulo Freire Bio
• The Pedagogy of the Oppressed Summary

Supplemental Viewing:

• Did You Know 2.0?
• Father Guido Sarducci “5 minute University”
• Ferris Bueller "Voodoo Economics. . .Anyone?" Clip